Best of 2017

#10 York U Hits the Top of the Charts

The Kinesiology and Health Science program in the Faculty of Health is the best in Canada, according to a new ranking released by ShanghaiRanking’s 2017 Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments.

The program has been ranked No. 1 in Canada, No. 3 in North America and No. 16 in the world by the prestigious ShanghaiRanking’s report, surpassing its 2016 rankings of No. 3 in Canada and No. 21 worldwide.

“To be ranked in the top 20 in the world and the best in Canada in any discipline is exceptional in its own right, but to have improved our ranking in a single year by five places internationally and to top spot in Canada is truly extraordinary,” said Paul McDonald, dean, Faculty of Health. “It validates the efforts the school has been making to continuously improve upon its 50-year legacy of excellence in groundbreaking research, innovative education and community engagement. The results exemplify York University’s basic values that it is possible to simultaneously be accessible, diverse and world class.”

The Schulich School of Business continued to be the best in class with Forbes, CNN Expansion and Corporate Knights ranking the Master of Business Administration program top in Canada and among the top in the world.

While the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program also ranked top in the country and 27th in the world by Financial Times of London global Executive MBA ranking and number one in the country and 8th in the world in the Economist 2017-2018 global Executive MBA ranking.

In the QS World University Rankings category of Social Sciences and Management, York University ranks in the top five universities in Canada in the subject areas of communication and media studies (#3), development studies (#3), anthropology (#4), law and legal studies (#4), politics (#5) and business management studies (#5). The University is in the top 10 in Canada for accounting and finance (#6), sociology (#6) and economics (#9).